Darrelle Revis says heart, not $70 million, led him back to Jets
Mere minutes after signing a contract that guaranteed him $39 million, new (and old) Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis claimed the No. 1 reason he returned to New York was not money, but because he simply wanted to come home, Seth Walder of the New York Daily News reports. That, and some unfinished business.
“This is where my heart is,” Revis said Wednesday on a conference call. “When I got drafted in 2007, the GM then was Mike Tannenbaum and I told him I would do everything in my power to try to bring a championship to this organization. And I still feel that way.”
Revis’ decision to return to the Jets is just the latest plot twist in the dramatic tale of the cornerback and the team that drafted (and traded and re-signed) him.
“It’s pretty surreal,” he said.
“I just felt like it was a no-brainer to come home,” he said. “And be back home. And make it a marriage.”
“Every player in this league has to get paid and they’ve got to sign a contract,” Revis said. “Whatever the numbers be on the contract, on the document, that’s what it is. Everybody has to get paid, according to how they perform on the field.”
Mere minutes after signing a contract that guaranteed him $39 million, new (and old) Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis claimed the No. 1 reason he returned to New York was not money, but because he simply wanted to come home, Seth Walder of the New York Daily News reports. That, and some unfinished business.
“This is where my heart is,” Revis said Wednesday on a conference call. “When I got drafted in 2007, the GM then was Mike Tannenbaum and I told him I would do everything in my power to try to bring a championship to this organization. And I still feel that way.”
Revis’ decision to return to the Jets is just the latest plot twist in the dramatic tale of the cornerback and the team that drafted (and traded and re-signed) him.
“It’s pretty surreal,” he said.
“I just felt like it was a no-brainer to come home,” he said. “And be back home. And make it a marriage.”
“Every player in this league has to get paid and they’ve got to sign a contract,” Revis said. “Whatever the numbers be on the contract, on the document, that’s what it is. Everybody has to get paid, according to how they perform on the field.”
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